Dirk Hähnel

7.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
34 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Dirk Hähnel is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Aerospace Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk Hähnel has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 23 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Dirk Hähnel's work include Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (23 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (22 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (4 papers). Dirk Hähnel is often cited by papers focused on Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (23 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (22 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (4 papers). Dirk Hähnel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Greece. Dirk Hähnel's co-authors include Wolfram Burgard, Sebastian Thrun, D. Fox, Dirk Schulz, Armin B. Cremers, Matthai Philipose, K.P. Fishkin, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Dieter Fox and Henry Kautz and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nano Letters and Optics Express.

In The Last Decade

Dirk Hähnel

33 papers receiving 4.4k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Experiences with an interactive museum tour-guide robot

1999 590 citations Wolfram Burgard, Armin B. Cremers et al. Artificial Intelligence profile →
Inferring Activities from Interactions with Objects

2004 583 citations Matthai Philipose, K.P. Fishkin et al. IEEE Pervasive Computing profile →
Mapping and localization with RFID technology

2004 503 citations Dirk Hähnel, Wolfram Burgard et al. profile →
An efficient fastslam algorithm for generating maps of large-scale cyclic environments from raw laser range measurements

2004 442 citations Dirk Hähnel, Wolfram Burgard et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dirk Hähnel Germany	25	2.8k	2.3k	1.1k	925	834	34	4.9k
Michael Montemerlo United States	21	3.4k 1.2×	3.8k 1.7×	1.5k 1.4×	1.5k 1.6×	1.1k 1.3×	27	6.3k
Patric Jensfelt Sweden	40	2.9k 1.0×	2.7k 1.2×	645 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	911 1.1×	148	4.6k
Morgan Quigley United States	18	2.7k 1.0×	2.4k 1.0×	670 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	2.1k 2.5×	28	6.6k
Maren Bennewitz Germany	30	3.7k 1.3×	2.6k 1.1×	329 0.3×	896 1.0×	1.5k 1.7×	142	5.7k
Gregory Dudek Canada	37	2.6k 0.9×	2.4k 1.0×	769 0.7×	767 0.8×	628 0.8×	269	5.4k
Nicholas Roy United States	36	2.1k 0.7×	2.0k 0.9×	523 0.5×	1.2k 1.3×	658 0.8×	95	4.3k
Edwin Olson United States	28	2.2k 0.8×	2.2k 1.0×	726 0.7×	513 0.6×	697 0.8×	72	4.2k
Marcelo H. Ang Singapore	36	2.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	637 0.6×	505 0.5×	1.6k 1.9×	301	5.6k
Jorge Dias Portugal	33	1.9k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	348 0.3×	662 0.7×	1.4k 1.7×	312	4.8k
Αντώνιος Γαστεράτος Greece	33	2.7k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	521 0.5×	457 0.5×	439 0.5×	236	4.5k

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Chizhik, Anna M., Carina Wollnik, Daja Ruhlandt, et al.. (2018). Dual-color metal-induced and Förster resonance energy transfer for cell nanoscopy. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 29(7). 846–851. 22 indexed citations

Karedla, Narain, Simon Christoph Stein, Dirk Hähnel, et al.. (2015). Simultaneous Measurement of the Three-Dimensional Orientation of Excitation and Emission Dipoles. Physical Review Letters. 115(17). 173002–173002. 29 indexed citations

Stein, Simon Christoph, et al.. (2015). Fourier interpolation stochastic optical fluctuation imaging. Optics Express. 23(12). 16154–16154. 34 indexed citations

Kümmerle, Rainer, Dirk Hähnel, Dmitri Dolgov, Sebastian Thrun, & Wolfram Burgard. (2009). Autonomous driving in a multi-level parking structure. 3395–3400. 80 indexed citations

Thrun, Sebastian, Christian Martín, Yufeng Liu, et al.. (2008). A Real-Time Expectation Maximization Algorithm for Acquiring Multi-Planar Maps of Indoor Environments with Mobile Robots. 19 indexed citations

Trahanias, Panos, Wolfram Burgard, Antonis Argyros, et al.. (2005). Web-Operated Mobile Robots for Tele-Presence in Populated Exhibitions. 2 indexed citations

Stachniss, Cyrill, Dirk Hähnel, Wolfram Burgard, & Giorgio Grisetti. (2005). On actively closing loops in grid-based FastSLAM. Advanced Robotics. 19(10). 1059–1079. 39 indexed citations

Philipose, Matthai, K.P. Fishkin, Mike Perkowitz, et al.. (2004). Inferring Activities from Interactions with Objects. IEEE Pervasive Computing. 3(4). 50–57. 583 indexed citations breakdown →

Thrun, Sebastian, Dirk Hähnel, Dave Ferguson, et al.. (2004). A system for volumetric robotic mapping of abandoned mines. 3. 4270–4275. 177 indexed citations

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Hähnel, Dirk, Rudolph Triebel, Wolfram Burgard, & Sebastian Thrun. (2004). Map building with mobile robots in dynamic environments. 1557–1563. 184 indexed citations

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Morris, Aaron, Dirk Hähnel, Christopher Baker, et al.. (2003). An Autonomous Robotic System for Mapping Abandoned Mines. Neural Information Processing Systems. 16. 587–594. 27 indexed citations

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Hähnel, Dirk, Sebastian Thrun, & Wolfram Burgard. (2003). An extension of the ICP algorithm for modeling nonrigid objects with mobile robots. FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg). 915–920. 94 indexed citations

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Hähnel, Dirk, Dirk Schulz, & Wolfram Burgard. (2003). Mobile robot mapping in populated environments. Advanced Robotics. 17(7). 579–597. 57 indexed citations

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Hähnel, Dirk, Wolfram Burgard, & Sebastian Thrun. (2003). Learning compact 3D models of indoor and outdoor environments with a mobile robot. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 44(1). 15–27. 228 indexed citations

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Hähnel, Dirk, Dirk Schulz, & Wolfram Burgard. (2003). Map building with mobile robots in populated environments. 1. 496–501. 122 indexed citations

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Burgard, Wolfram, Panos Trahanias, Dirk Hähnel, et al.. (2003). Tele-Presence in Populated Exhibitions Through Web-Operated Mobile Robots. Autonomous Robots. 15(3). 299–316. 12 indexed citations

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Beetz, Michael, Tom Arbuckle, Armin B. Cremers, et al.. (2001). Integrated, plan-based control of autonomous robot in human environments. IEEE Intelligent Systems. 16(5). 56–65. 38 indexed citations

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Thrun, Sebastian, Michael Beetz, Maren Bennewitz, et al.. (2000). Probabilistic Algorithms and the Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot Minerva. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 19(11). 972–999. 356 indexed citations

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Burgard, Wolfram, Armin B. Cremers, Dieter Fox, et al.. (1999). Experiences with an interactive museum tour-guide robot. Artificial Intelligence. 114(1-2). 3–55. 590 indexed citations breakdown →

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Burgard, Wolfram, Armin B. Cremers, Dieter Fox, et al.. (1998). The interactive museum tour-guide robot. RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen). 11–18. 341 indexed citations

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